Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts / Daniel K. Richter.

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"Exploring a vast range of original sources, 'Before the Revolution' spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoples - Indians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, English - as they struggle with one anoth...

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Main Author: Richter, Daniel K.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
United States > Civilization.
United States > Civilization > Indigenous influences.
United States > Civilization > European influences.
United States > Civilization > African influences.
America > History > To 1810.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Physical Description:viii, 502 pages : illustrations , maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue : layered pasts
  • Progenitors
  • Legacies of power from medieval North America
  • Legacies of conquest from medieval Europe
  • Conquistadores
  • Crusades of the Christ-bearers to the Americas
  • Crusades of the protestants to new worlds
  • Traders
  • Native Americans and the power of trade
  • Epidemics, wars, and the remapping of a continent
  • Planters
  • Searching for order in new and old England
  • Planting patriarchy in New England and Virginia
  • Dutch, French, Spanish, and English alternatives
  • Imperialists
  • Monarchical power reborn
  • Planters besieged
  • Revolution, warfare, and a new transatlantic order
  • Atlanteans
  • Producing and consuming in an Atlantic empire
  • People in motion in slavery and freedom
  • Contending for a continent
  • Gloomy and dark days
  • Epilogue : present pasts.